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Jay

I had lunch with Faith yesterday and marveled at the bird life in her walled garden. It was a beautiful sunny day so we ate in the conservatory and watched the birds poke around in the garden and feed on nuts from a hanging bird-feeder. In the time it took my grandmother and I to polish off a bottle of wine (not long!) we saw the following birds:

jay
magpie
nuthatch
great tit
blue tit
chaffinch
dunnock
moorhen
greater spotted woodpecker
jackdaw

Faith said the reason so many birds are back in her garden is because she accidentally roasted to death a pair of resident crows! Apparently they got stuck in the chimney while she was testing a newly installed wood-burning stove. What amazed me was how beautiful and green this part of England is — we were only 20 miles outside London.